Tuesday, April 5

The hits keep comin'! Echo Bridge looks to have "hobbled" Steve Miner's Halloween:H20 to 1.78:1 from its original 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio. The film was shot Super35 which is meant to give filmmakers more freedom in frame composition. This is done by capturing a larger square area onto film and then being able to move the matte around in post-production to achieve the desired widescreen presentation. So theoretically H20 isn't "cropped", but more incorrectly framed to what was intended.

I haven't seen this Blu-ray (like hell I'm buying it now), but being at such a ratio most likely means the HD master is an existing one created who-knows-when for cable broadcasts (perhaps at1080i). So it wouldn't be surprising if the picture quality is underwhelming since it wasn't expressly created for this Blu-ray. Also EB dropped the supplements and 5.1 surround audio. Keep those DVDs and wait for eventual Blu-ray imports...